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sansa fuze — replace firmware with rockbox

just replaced the firm­ware (think oper­at­ing system) on my sansa fuze v1 (8gb model) with the open source rockbox. when using the sansa’s ori­ginal soft­ware i was getting jumpy play­back and i wasn’t ter­ribly fond of the inter­face.
rockbox has a vast array of fea­tures and can be cus­tom­ised and fine tuned to suit the user’s needs and tastes.
the firm­ware, cur­rently, only works with the first gen­er­a­tion of the sansa fuze (v1) not the second gen­er­a­tion (v2) so check your players version before attempt­ing any­thing. it also sup­ports various other mp3 players so see if yours is sup­por­ted
there’s an auto­matic installer avail­able but i chose the manual method.
really enjoy using it so far. lots of fea­tures to tinker with and last.fm scrob­bling support!

a couple of screen shots of avail­able themes

Cabbie-enhanced-info by Bernd Fischer

FuzeRock by Terry Dale

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